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Nevada County picayune., 1887-02-02
Where Good Citizens Come From

The country girl or boy is face to face with practical realities. He sees how slowly money ia made on the farm; he'is taught from youth up tue need of economy; he has the nature of saving first explained to him every day in the week; he is not exposed to the temptations of the saloon or ballroom, and he is not much of il lady's man before he has occasion to use razor on his downy cheeks. He may be tritle rude; he may not feel easy in com- psny, but in the long, closely con- tested race of life 1t is the chap that trudgeS 10 school barefooted in summer and stogas in the winter, whose mother cuts his hair with the sheep shears, who leads the chap that goes to the city school with the starched shirt front and fancy slippers, and whose head is shaved with a lawn mower at the barber shop. Such has been our observance, aud we think we know what we arc talking about.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-02-02
Only Two Words.

"Ol if l were lucky enough :o call this estate mine, I should be q happy fellow," said youn. man. "And then!' said n friend. "Why, then I'd pull down the old house and build a palace, have lots of prime fellows around me, keep the best wines, and the finest horses and dogs m the country" And theng"
 "Then I'd hunt and ride and smoke and drink and dance and keep open house, and enjoy life glorionsly.'
 "And tlicu?"
 "Why, then, l suppose, like otl- CT people, 1 should grow old and pot care so much for these things" "And thenW
 "Why, then, suppose, in the course of nature l should leave all these pleasant things -and--well -yes-die!"
 "And thenW
 "Oh, bother your 'thensp l must be off"
 Many years after the friend was
  accostud with "God bless you! l owe my happiness to youw How?"
 By two words spoken in seasoi, long ago-'And then" "-- Y <, Culver,
 r-sz-.s.--s-.s.- r-s@sz-s~4zasS- A correspondent asks: "ls ! wrong to cheat a lawyelw Ifir~I cheat the lawyer and then we w'i answer the conumdrum.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-02-02
Suffering Women!
Read What the Great Methodist Divine and Eminent Physi-
 clan Says of
Brddfeld'S Female Regulator
ATLANTA, GA.. Feb. 20. lssl.

NTLNNTA, VfAs' TVU. -U I0NI' DR. J. BRADFIELD: Dear Sir Some fifteen vcors ago I examined the recipe of Female Regulator, and carefully studied authorities in regard to is componeuts, and then (as well ns now) pronounce it to be the most scientific and skillrul combination of the really reliable remedial vegetable agents known to science, to net directly on the womb and uterine organs. and the organs and parts sympothizing directly with these; and, therefore, providing specific remedy for all diseases of the womb, and of the ad- iaeent organs and parts.
 lonrs truly,
 JESSIE BORING. M. D., D, D.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-02-02
Paying for Money and Getting Cheated.

' Cheated. The love of money is said TO be the root of all evil. So great is that love in a majority of cases, that almost any price is paid for it, We propose briefly to discuss the matter and show that money, like other things, is often bought too dearly.
 When man in pursuit of wealth sacrifices moral principle in order to insure success, he gets cheated. When he pursues a business, however renumerative, which lie knows is undermining his health, he gets cheated.
 When he habitually deyotes so many hours to labor that he has no time to give to his family and friends. to reading, mental or mor- al culture, he gets cheated.
 When he makes money by rum. selling, or any other traffic which works mischief in the community he gets cheated.
 When he ignores ",,l outside natter" and is determined to make money anyhow, leaving re- ligion, politics, friends, benevolent objects, and "everybody to take care of themselves" he gets cheat ed.
 When he finds making mohey in his fashion excludes him from the society of really good men, he gets cheated.
 When he is determined, in old age, to give himself no rest or re- taxation, but works on grasping for more, more, more, he gets cheated.
 When he has money enough to satisfy any reasonable being, and should haul in his sail and devote some of his best time and energies to doing good-but won't do it and works on--he gets cheated
 When he finds his hard earno,! wealth is injuring both himself and family, that his children are grow = ing up in ignorance and idleness and they are all "good for nothing" to the world, it is evident that, he has been cheated.
 When his devotion to money making cost him restless nights, i'll health, loss of appetite. bad tenn per, envy and jealousy, the growth of pride, idolatry of gold, a stingy or sour disposition, and tine hatred or indifference of good society, all we have to say IS, even II ne mas gained the whole world, he has got abominably cheated.
 Don't, therefore pay too much for money. It will not furnish you ali you desire. It will not insure you good health. It will not en- rich your mind. It will not enrich your heart. It willnot deliver you from danger. It will not follow J ou beyond the grave. It will not save your soul. Don't therefore, we pray for you, in getting gold sacrifice your principles, your health, your friends, your good name, tho best interests of your family, of your soul; tor if you do, you are cheated from time to cter- nity. Don't get cheated.-Select- ed.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-02-02
A FINE Florida Tonic ]!

One of the land marks of tn, Georgia Drug trade, now of Orlan da, Florida, waites:
 T can hardly select single case of the many to whom I have sold "Guinn's Pioneer Blood Rencwer' but what have been satisfied: and find it the best remedy for all Skin Diseases l have ever sold, and a fine Florida Tonic.
 FosEER $. CHAPMAN,
 Orlando, Fla.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-02-02

A correspondent asks: "Is j. wrong 10 cheat lawyerw lF;rrI cheat the lawyer and then we w'l answer the conumdrum.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-02-02
Certain Cure for Catarrh'
 \ SUPERB FLESH PRODUCER AND TONIC!

Cuinn's PiGneer Blood isenewer. Cures all Blood and Skin Diseases Rheuma- tism, Scrofula, Old Sores. A perfect Sprng Medicine
 If not in your market it will be forwarded on receipt of price. Small bottles Sl.00 large Sl.75.
 Essay on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
 MACON MEDICINE COMPANY
 Macoon, n.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-02-02

Bradhcld's Female Regulator is only in tended for diseases peculiar to woman, and for these is Specific
 Sold by all druggists. Send for our trea- tise on the Health and Happiness of Woman mailed free, which gives all particulars.
 THr BRADFIELD REGULATOR Co
 Box 28, Atlanta, Ga
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-10

HUMAN BEINGS TURNED INTO TREES
The principal part played by trees in
popular mythology is in connection with
Transformation scenes, there being obvl-
ously no greater difficulty in conceiving
the sudden conversion of human being
into tree than into rock or star. In the
Tyrol you may still see an Alpine rose
which sprang from the blood of girl who
in defence of her innocence lost her life.
Then there is an Austrian tale of girl
whom, for falling in love with soldier, her
mother cursed her into a maple tree; her
body became rough, her skin turned to
bark, her hands to branches and her hair
to leaves. Near Nuremberg are three
trees which were originally maidens who
deceived strangers to a wood and there
robbed and murdered them; they were at
last struck by lightning and turned into
trees, and their cries may still sometimes
be heard after the evenings bells have
ceased to ring. In certain state Of cul-
ture there is nothing incredible in this
kind of occurrence.
All through the middle ages stories of
conversion into trees abound. An Alsa-
tian girl, praying constantly to the Vir-
gin that she may remain unmarried, is
turned into a lime tree which stands near
a church dedicated to the Virgin. Or,
again, Charlemagne, having defeated and
slaughtered number of Saracens, wishes
to bury both friends and foes, yet to sep
arate the Christians from the infidels, in
his perplexity he prays earnestly one
night, and the next morning beholds the
body of the enemy changed into thorn
trees.-Geatleman's Magazine.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-10
MASON AND DIXON'S LINE.

Our commissioners are on still hunt for
the old Mason and Dixon line between Ad-
ans and Fulton county, dividing Frank
lin from the Maryland side. They say
that it is the worst job they have under
taken for many years. They started in
Fulton county, crossed seven mountains
and landed at the foot of Clap Lick noun
tain. During the trip they only found one
stone missing, and that was in Polecat val
ley. That stone was taken by some mis-
creants from Baltimore, who happened
there some ears ago on hunting expedi-
ton. What they wanted with the stone
is unknown and will remain a mystery.
1t is singular fact that every fifth stone
has upon its face the crown of England.
When we of to-day, taking history as our
guide, find that this line was run in 1870,
and look over the years Intervening, it is
wonder that all the stones have not been
mutilated or destroyed.
The above is taken from Pennsylvania
paper, but the wrong date is given. Many
of the people of our country have no idea
what Mason and Dixon's line is, or what
it was run for The general impression is
that it had a great deal to do with the
slavery agitation from 1910 to 1860, and
that the line was established to separate
the slave States from the free ones. From
1851 to 176S there were many conflicts be.
tween the rival proprietaries of Maryland
and Pennsylvania as to the proper bound
ary between them. The vicinity of this
line was often the scene of riot and blood
shed. After many years of fruitless wrang-
ling they concluded to settle the matter
and Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon,
two English mathematicians and astrono.
mers, were employed to do the work
They arrived in Philadelphia, November
Is, 1863, and commenced their work in De.
cember. They were discharged in 1867
They ran the whole distance in dispute
except thirty miles on the western side
The Indians prevented them from COM
pleting the work. At the end of every
mile they set up a stone. At every fifth
mile larger stone was set up with the
arms of the Penn family on one side and
those of Lord Baltimore on the other.
The four intermediate stones have P on
the Pennsylvania side and an NJ on the
Maryland side. In 1882 Alexander Nc
Clean, of Pennsylvania, and Joseph New
lille, of Virginia, completed the line. In
1912 the former surveys were tested
and found to be correct. The line is on
the parallel of 390, 49,, 26.%.-Carolina
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-10

PHYSIOLOGY OF FORGETFULNESS.--
Forgetfulness as to events occurring in the
first two or three years of life is not
unnatural. The brain has not become
thoroughly organized, the cells have not
formed their numerous connections which
are necessary before the association of ideas
is possible, and the vast multitude of SEN
sations crowding together upon the i'm
perfect brain cannot be separated one from
another and each makes its proper strong
impression, all Of which must take place
if memory is to result. After while the
cells become slowly united into groups
C'centers') and these establish connec-
tions between themselves, ever becoming
more and more extensive, and memories
4of the organized form arise and srecollec-
ti0n becomes possible.
. In extreme old age the nerve cells lose
more and more of their ability to take on
new impressions, the heart acts with less
force; nutrition gradually fails, and for
getfulness becomes more and more mark
ed. The later impressions having made
the slightest change in the cells are soonest
forgotten, while those made in earlier
years, when the processes of growth and
nutrition were most active, remain the
longest. Old Falstatf, dying, "babbled of
green fields" "and the aged not infrequenttly
remember nothing but the scenes of child
hood and early youth-all else has faded
away forever. During profound sleep, if
ideas arise in the mind they are not suf-
ficiently strong to make any lasting i'm
preston upon the brain cells-they are
not registered. In dreaming portion of
the brain is active, while the rest is quies-
cent, but the disturbance of consciousness
is so light that large proportion of dreams
are not remembered even on first waking.
1t frequently happens that a dream is re-
membered when one aWakens in the night,
but by morning the impression has van
.ished, and no means can be devised to COM
pei recollection. Globe Democrat.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-10
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A MYSTERY.

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Life held in her hands measure,
And swung it lightly and low;
And she said will see if my pleasure
Do not outweigh my woe.
And she gathered all stingless laughter,
All loves that were lasting and sure,
All joys that left memories after,
All wealth that was wingless and pure;
She gathered all sunlight and starlight,
All thornless and fadeless flowers;
She gathered the faint light and far light
4. OF pangless and perfect hours
She gathered all glimpses elysian
That had never blasted the soul,
All hopes that had held to fruition,
All talents that won to the goal,
All wisdom that never had saddened,
All truths that never had lied,
All ambitions that never had maddened,
All beauty that satisfied.
And she flung then all, all in her measure,
But they nothing unbalanced the pain
And she said: must yet add a treasure,
The kindest and best in my train.
And she reached out and took death and lald IL
All restless and calm on the SCALE,
Yet, pain, as beforei still outweighed, -,
And she sighed as she said Could this fail
Then she reached up to merciful Heaven,
Took down and flung DER Earth's strl1e'
A little pale hope all unproven-
The hope of measureless life;
Flung it down with doubling and wonder,
With a question and touch Of disdaln,
When 10 swift the light scale went under.
Life's woe was outweighed by lifes gain
Oh strange Oh !most strange If the measure
or all mortal days be but woe,
Compared with their acme of pleasure
Life mused as she hung low the scale,)
Why, then, should it lessen Earth's sorrow
Why magnify Deaths consequence
To believe in timeless tomorrow?
And life held the scale in suspense.
Ne,o York Independent.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-10
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS A CENTURY AGO.

At the end of 1788 luxury had to some
extent gained ground. Dinners were still
at2 o'clock, or for company at 8. Ofsoups,
even then we had only gravy clear, or with
vegetables, cut small, swimming at the
top. White soup was used for ball suppers,
but a white dinner soup, or mock turtle,
had only found their way down as far as
the Lord Mayors table, real turtle being
dressed only as ragout, never as soup.
Beef or mutton broth was sometimes sent
up in large dish, with the meat and veg
etables all together. Of fish, in winter,
cod and smelts were choice dish, and
also herrings, sprats, oysters and Holsters
when hawked in summer, salmon, sea or
river, salmon trout, generally picked !;
mackerel, haddock, Dutch plaice, shrimps,
year, ,steWed, br0iled, fried or water soatched
two dishes, roast and boiled, with appro-
pirate vegetables, and dumplings, and for
q friend generally third was added.
These were ordinarily joints of beef, NUT
ton or veal, replaced sometimes by calf's
head or rump, steak in slices sent up hot,
sora knackle sof veal wi thsa agaaann0nsaof
bacon, ham being very expensive luxury
and only used for gala dinners. In winter
a delicacy was boiled leg of house lamb
with lamb chops round. Mutton heated a
second time was never brought to table !;
geese and ducks could be had only from
June to old Michaelmas Day; fowls and
pigeons round the year, but very frugally
used. Company puddings were lemon,
potato, ground rice, vermicelli, marrow,
boiled batter, and bread in molds or cups,
pancakes. apple fritters, omelets with tarts
of various kinds, with custard or cream:
Then cheese, &C., as now; but macaroni
and other savory dishes were not then in
troduced. Malt liquor, cider and perry
were the ordinary drinks at dinner, and
port and Madeira were put upon the table
afterward, with trifling dessert. If the
gentlemen assembled wished to make a
drinking bout, which was often the case,
it began after supper.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-10
THE CHILDHOOD or CHRIST.

Let us single out the boy, that we may
try to see him as he was-afoot like his
brethren, small growing, and therefore
slender, says Gen. Lew Wallace, writing
in Hdrpers' Magazine of 1.-THE Childhood
of Christ" His attire was simple; on
His head white handkerchief, held in
place by cord, one corner turned under at
the forehead, and the other corners loose.
A tunic, also white, covered him from
neck to knees, girt at the waist. His arms
and legs were bare; on his feet were san
dals ofthe most primitive kind, being soles
of ox-hide attached to the ankles by leath-
ern straps. He carried a stick that was
much taller than himself. The old paint
ers, called upon to render this childish
figure on canvass, would have insisted up
on distinguishing it with nimbus at least; ;
some of them would have filled the air
over his head with cherubs; some would
have had the tunic plunged into pot of
would have blocked the way of both
mother and son with monks and cardinals.
The boys face comes to me very clearly.
I imagine him by the roadside on a rock
which he has climbed, the better to see the
procession winding picturesquely through
the broken country. His head is raised in
an effort at far sight. The light of an in
tensely brilliant sun is upon his cOunten-
ance, which in general cast is oval and del
icate. Under the folds Of the handkerchief
I see the forehead, covered by mass of
projecting sunburned blonde hair, which
the wind has taken liberties with and
tossed into tufts. The eyes are in shade,
leaving doubt whether they are brown,
or violet like his mother's; yet they are
large and healthfully clear and still retain
the parallelism of arch between brow and
upper lid usually the characteristic of
children and beautiful women. The nose
is of regular inward curve, joined prettily
to short upper lip by nostrils just full
enough to give definition to transparent
shadows in the corners. The mouth is
small, and open slightly, so that through
the scarlet freshness Of its lines catch a
glimpse of two white teeth. The cheeks
are ruddy and round, and only a certain
sqareness of chin tells of years this side
the day the Magi laid their treasures at
his feet. Putting face and figure together,
and mindful of the attitude of interest in
what is passing before him, the lad, as l
see him on the rock, is handsome and at
tractive. When the journey shall have
ended, and his mother made him ready
for the court of the temple, he ayjustify
worshipful description of the Saviour of
men in the comeliness of budding youth,
his sad destiny yet far in the future.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-10

ALL ABOUT BANANAs.-"Howd do ba-
nanas grow?" AS no answer has yet been
given I will tell you something about it.
10 be accurate, I have jus. been out to
measure some small ones they stand two
feet or more in height, two side by side,
in place of large one killed by frost.
Each has four leaves upon its stalk which
I can almost clasp with one hand near the
ground, and of course the bulb would be of
same size, similar to an onion with rootlets
from the bottom. Six inches from the
stalk the leaf widens to eight or nine
inches and twenty inches in length. You
understand the stem of the leaf IS SIX
inches long. They are beautiful green,
but tender, and when large are always
slit more or less by the wind. | have
found them eighteen inches broad and
from a yard and half to two yards in
length; taller than myself, too large to
clasp with two hands perhaps. The stalk
is full of water, each leaf stem forming the
stalk, and consequently liking much moist
ure, and drinking a great deal. How
about the fruit? When two or three
wears old you first discover the stalk peep
ing out from the centre. Now if the little
boy asking the question will curl his finger
ends down upon the palm of his hand he
can see how it grows or looks; this large
reddish purple bud, looking like large
ear of corn with husks on, droops in like
manner. In a few days the outer leaf or
husk begins to lift and turn backward and
even Wits and drops to the ground, and
underneath you will see the tiny bananas
set in row. So these large husks lift and
drop one by one, showing the tiny. rows
under each. 1t is little singular that if
anything happens to one Of these husks,
or protectors, the remainder Of the ib bud
can be cut off as no other will come after
wards. 1t requires months to come to
maturity after the first show of fruit, but
they can be cut off before the fruit begins
to turn color and ripen them.-Ipitness.
b9~ Potter's Field is the name of an an
cient burial place for strangers in Jerusa-
lem. 1t is on a hill overlooking. the val
ley of Hinnom. In the modern times the
name has been applied to those burial
plots where the poor and friendless are
given sepulchre, particularly those who
die in public almshouses.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-10

with the utmost precision, and it is said
that even water cannot penetrate between
columns. The name causeway
is given to the the platform, as its columns
terminate at so nearly a uniform height
that it presents an almost smooth area
extending to the water, seeming to primi-
tive imagination a road that had been pre-
pared for the convenience of giants.-Later-
Ocean.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-10

THE PRINTING PREss.-Four hundred
years ago the first book was printed; yes,
there was once time when children had
no books.
The grown people had kind of books
written, not printed books. These were
on long slips Of parchment that rolled up!
Queer books, were they not? and cost
ly as well as queer. None but the rich
could have them.
The first printing was done with wood
en- blocks. The letters were stamped on
block, and the wood was cut away,
leaving the raised letters. With this the
page was printed. But it was slow work,
and costly, too, as a new block had to be
made for each page.
About 1923, Johannes Gutenberg, Ger
man, thought of having each letter on
separate block so they could be used over
and over. So he invented the printing
press, and since then the world has printed
hooks
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-10

and rosy cheeks nestled beside the cold
face of his dying mother. "My son." she
whispered, "repeat this verse after me,
and never forget it: Whenmy father and
mother forsake me, the Lord will take me
up"
The child repeated it two or three times,
and said his little prayer. Then he kiss
ed the cold face, and went quickly to his
bed. In the morning he went as usual to
his mother, but found her dead and cold.
She had heard her boys last lesson, and
he will never forget it. E